Sony’s Crackle to make eye-popping online video a snap: "Sony Pictures has released Crackle, a redesign of its social-networking forum Grouper. The Sony Pictures Entertainment company is for the first time streaming professional-quality video online and aiming for a content provider that’s more video savvy than your average YouTuber. "

A robot that watches all YouTube videos to inspect for illegal use of copyright works...

YouTube preps video fingerprinting - Yahoo! News: "...video recognition technology will allow those holding copyrights on videos to provide a digital fingerprint so that if anyone tries to share a copyrighted video, the system will shut it down within a minute or so...."

"AVCHD stands for Advanced Video Codec High Definition, and it’s based upon the AVC codec, a joint standard of the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) and ISO (International Standardization Organization) groups. It's also called H.264. AVC/H.264 is an advanced subset of MPEG-4 compression (MPEG-4 Part 10 to be specific), so sometimes the terms are used interchangeably—although in most instances, references to MPEG-4 are to the older codec, not AVC. ..."http://digitalcontentproducer.com/hdhdv/depth/avchd_compression_070907/